Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Solitude is independence.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Remember we're all in this alone.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Love alone could waken love.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

If there's an inkling of abuse, I have to move on. Even jealousy - seems cute it first, but if they're getting in my head, it's not right for me. It's okay to be alone. It's okay to be single. The right thing will come along.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

It is very easy to love alone.

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

You only grow when you are alone.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Work alone is noble.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

By all means use some time to be alone.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.